Go Offline to Avoid Blog Timeouts
Christine Herron writes that Typepad Timeouts Are Ugly. Scenario: you’ve just finished writing an absolutely brilliant post, and the server connection to your online blogging tool goes down. You click save, and lose your work. It’s not just Typepad, it’s all online blogging tools — count my favorite, Wordpress, amongst the guilty.
Fortunately, there is help on the horizon in the form of next generation offline blogging tools. I’ve used Qumana (available now) and also used the Publish to Blog feature in Word 2007 (available next year).  Both are promsing tools, and can really help you use offline time productively. There’s something to be said for being able to compose a post from the seat of an airplane, and then punch the publish button when you land.Â
July 13th, 2006 at 9:25 am
Bloggers Angst…
TypePad says “Weblogs were never down…” and you really CANNOT blame the folks at TypePad or any other hosting service. Computers are machines. Machines sometimes malfunction. There are “unforeseeables” that come into play….
July 13th, 2006 at 3:04 pm
This is why I use Performancing. It’s built into my browser and doesn’t time out.
July 13th, 2006 at 3:17 pm
I’ve used Ecto for a while now, which lets me keep my blog posts off line and saved me any hassle from TypePad’s downtime yesterday.